Some years ago I bought a 37 that came with two non-rib barrels, one 28" Mod. and one 30" Full.I have no need for both and thought about chopping the 30" back to 25" and having a cylinder bore quail gun with maybe a 30 yard pheasant thrown in. No one wants to buy a non-rib barrel and I wouldn't give a dime for a vent rib on a hunting gun, but to each his own.I would appreciate your thoughts on the 25" cylinder bore hunting gun.

Howdy rex,good to see some activity here finally. However, there hasn't been any in over 3 years here. So may not get an answer. You could ask over on mossbergowners.com the main site of all the "**"owners.com sites....

I have a 20g 25" open cyl someone even went thru the effort of putting a simmons rib and mid bead on it.it works really well on my ultra featherlite.it is a close in gun ,I tend to use it for quail and early grouse when the cover is thick.however for normal pheasant and late grouse I move to ICylbut in normal conditions a Cyl will work on preserve pheasants.keep in mind this is a 20g and 12g results may differ a bit

i'd have no hesitation cutting down any removable plain barrel to suite a purpose.my insides get squishy when it comes to matched barrels on older guns esp ribbed ones.I also don't usually modify chokesif its a SN# gun I live with it , if its a removable i'll find another barrel with the correct choke

As for what happened there was a rather grumpy moderator for a while that kinda drove folks off. Most of the regulars migrated to another site. I would like to see this site take off again as it comes up well when a new person googles an Ithaca forum. I still check in here regularly to see if I can answer someones questions but have not posted any new material simply because there is not enough traffic to really have a conversation about much.

Also glad to see a little traffic on the site, the tumbleweed seems to drift across sometimes!To Rex, a spare barrel (any spare barrel!!) is like rocking horse manure this side of the pond! I have been looking for 3 years and while I have found some cheaper, possibly donor guns, they have all been repaired and refurbished as I cannot bring myself to scrap one! With UK law enforcing a minimum barrel length of 24", which is ok for a field gun, I would say your 25" would be a nice compact quail gun. Don't forget to crown your barrel after cutting and to pattern your chosen cartridge on paper at your chosen distance